If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
